Phoebe: Yeah, well neither were you and Piper, or you and Grams, or you and Dad. Oh look, there's another one of you and Piper.

Prue: Okay, there's a picture of you and Grams.

Phoebe: Oh, wasn't I cute.

Prue: Here's one of you and Mum.

Phoebe: Wow, I don't even remember that. What was I, about two? (Prue nods) She died on us a year later.

Prue: Phoebe.

(Piper enters the room.)

Piper: Okay, alright, I need a pen and paper. (She tries to open a drawer but it's stuck.) Quick, we don't have a lot of time. (Phoebe hits it twice and kicks it and the drawer opens.) I always wondered how you got into my candy drawer.

Phoebe: Yeah, too bad all the candy's gone.

Piper: I thought it would be easy for us to just write him a note.

Prue: Who him?

Piper: You know, what's his name. (The doorbell rings) Grandma's little friend comes every year, same day, same time. Says you know, the flowers are from a secret admirer when it's obvious he's the admirer. (She opens the door) Hi, come on in. (The clock chimes in the background) How are you?

Man: Flowers for Miss Penny Halliwell. (He goes to hand them to Piper but he drops them and Piper freezes him and the flowers.) Every year. What a klutz. At least this year I can freeze him so I can spare myself the clean up.

Phoebe: Why did you want to write him a note?

Piper: To tell him Grams is dead.

Prue: Oh, you're gonna break his heart.

(Piper gets the vase of flowers that's frozen in the air. The man unfreezes.)

Man: Five chimes.

Piper: Excuse me?

Man: I only heard five chimes. It's noon. That means you froze me. Which means you have your powers at last.

Piper: Uh, I don't know what you're talking about Mister but thanks for the flowers, okay, bye.

Nicholas: Call me Nicholas. Your mother did. (He puts on a ring and he becomes younger.) I had to appear to age over the years otherwise you would of become suspicious.

Prue: What?

Nicholas: You see, twenty-four years ago today, your mother and I made a pact to spare her life, she gave up your future powers to me. She blessed this ring. Which gave me immunity from your powers. (Piper tries to freeze him.) Immunities so that I could kill you and take the powers on for my own. To become invincible.

Prue: Our mother would never give away our powers.

Nicholas: She didn't have much of a choice. Your blood is boiling. Soon your lungs will sear. (He points the ring at them and they double over in agony.) Your organs will over heat and death will come.

(Phoebe kicks him in the leg and he falls over. They run upstairs to the Book of Shadows.)

Prue: Why would mum make a deal like that?

Piper: More importantly, what are we gonna do?

Phoebe: Wait, I think I found a spell. To unbind a bond.

Nicholas: (from downstairs) You can't run from me.

Prue: Okay, we have no choice.

Piper: Okay, Phoebe, hurry.

Phoebe: Okay. "The bond which was not to be done, Give us the power to see it undone, And turn back time to whence it was begun." (Twinkling lights encircled them, they disappear for a few seconds and reappear in the same spot.) Did it work?

Prue: Nothing happened.

(A phone rings from downstairs. Phoebe opens the attic door.)

Phoebe: Who's phone is that?

Piper: Not ours.

Someone downstairs: Halliwell residence.

Piper: You go.

Phoebe: Nah-uh, you go.

Piper: Nah-uh, she goes. (They push Prue out the door.)

[Cut to the stairs. Prue sees her grandma talking on the phone.)

Grams: I beg your pardon. Well, Donna, I'm hurt just hurt that you would suspect my little angels of such a thing.

Grams: Oh, Andy. Did Piper freeze you again? Oh, you poor dear. You won't remember a thing. (He unfreezes) Do you know where the girls went?

Little Andy: I think the strange ladies took them.

[Scene: Park.]

Prue: Okay, girls. If we see a bad guy what do we do?

Little Prue: She's gonna cry.

Little Piper: Am not. I'm gonna freeze him.

Little Prue: And then I'm gonna move him.

Prue: Okay, then we'll take care of him and then we will all...

Little Prue and Piper: Run like the wind!

Prue: Exactly. Alright, so let's give it a try. Ready?

(Prue throws a ball up in the air. Little Piper freezes it and little Prue moves it.)

Little Prue: Can we do it again?

Prue: Yes, yes. Okay, go try it.

Phoebe: Those girls have major juice. They have control, they can aim.

Prue: Yeah, well, they've had their powers a lot longer than we have. I mean did. I think.

Phoebe: What do you think happened to our powers when we were kids?

Prue: Well, we lost a lot growing up. Somehow we must of lost them too. (Piper comes up to them.)

Piper: I finally found a pay phone. Mum is at work until five and Nicholas is on duty until six.

Prue: Good, at least we know where he is. The girls are ready.

Phoebe: Well, I'm not.

Prue: Why not?

Phoebe: Mum died before I could grab onto enough to keep her alive in my head. And now she's here alive, pregnant with me. If we stop Nicholas we have to go back to our own time. And there's no mum.

Piper: We don't have much of a choice Phoebe.

(A cop car pulls up.)

Cop: Ladies. Is this your car?

[Scene: Patty is walking to Victor's room. She knocks on the door.]

Victor: Come in.

Patty: Victor?

(Someone grabs her.)

Patty: Get off me.

(It's Nicholas. He handcuffs her hands together.)

Nicholas: I won't let you freeze me, Patty.

Patty: You.

Nicholas: Call me Nicholas.

Patty: Where's Victor?

Nicholas: Not here. Bait for the hook.

(Patty hits him in the stomach.)

Nicholas: Your blood is boiling, and then death will come.

Patty: What do you want?

Nicholas: What does any warlock want? I want your power Patty. At least I wanted it first. Till I realised you were the mother of the charmed ones.

Patty: No, no. You're mistaken. I only have two children.

Nicholas: Oh, but they'll be a third child. Where did that premonition of yours come from Patty? If not from the unborn child inside you. I tapped your phone. And I heard you and your old witch talking about it.

Patty: I saw three warlocks. Women.

Nicholas: I saw them too, at the diner. I got to you first.

(He gets his ring out of a drawer.)

Patty: I beg you. Don't hurt them.

Nicholas: There is another option Patty.

[Scene: Jail.]

Piper: I can't believe we got arrested for kidnapping ourselves.

Prue: Yeah, well, it should make for a pretty interesting defence.

Piper: Do you think this is funny? Prue, we're not just stuck in jail, we're stuck in the past.

Prue: Yes, I know Piper, I've been following.

Prue: Uh, bright side?

Piper: Uhh, I dare go.

Phoebe: Well, maybe we could get to know mum better. Or, in my case finally. I mean, if we really are stuck here, we may as well take advantage of it. And maybe we can keep her from dying young this time.

Officer: Five minutes, ma'am.

(Patty comes up to them.)

Patty: How'd you know I was pregnant? Who are you people?

Phoebe: Your daughters.

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[Scene: Outside jail.]

Patty: Okay, I bailed you out. You just better not be warlocks.

Prue: Well, we wouldn't of need you to bail us out if we were.

Patty: I've seen some magic in my life, but this is a miracle.

Phoebe: More than you know mum.

Piper: Where are the little ones?

Patty: Home with Grams. I called her before I came here. That's how I knew you were arrested.

Prue: Did you tell her about us?

Patty: No. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know who you were myself? You're all so beautiful. More than I ever would of imagined. Phoebe. Phoebe. Talk about miracles. I must of named you after my favourite aunt. But, if you don't like the name I can always change it.

Phoebe: No. I love it.

Prue: Ah, mum. We cast a spell to come back in time to help you. Stop you.

Patty: To stop me from what?

Prue: From making a pact with a warlock named Nicholas.

Patty: Then you're too late.

Piper: What?

Patty: I thought I was going to see Victor, your father. But it turned out to be a trap.

Prue: Nicholas.

Patty: He tried to kill me. Phoebe too. I had to give him immunity to your powers in exchange for your lives. I'd rather love you as mortal daughters, than mourn you as dead witches.

Piper: But he's gonna kill us anyway to get our powers.

Patty: Not until Phoebe's born. And all your powers are complete. I bought us some time in hope that Grams could help us. Oh, she's going to be so thrilled when she sees you. The charmed ones. (They hug.)

[Scene: Halliwell manor.]

Grams: Where was I born?

Patty: Mum.

Grams: I'm still not convinced that they're not warlocks.

Patty: We have a pact to undo. We should be looking for a spell.

Prue: Boston. In a hotel room breach.

Grams: What was my husbands name?

Prue: Which husband?

(Piper and Phoebe laugh.)

Grams: Who's Melinda Warren?

Phoebe: The beginning of our family line. She gave us our powers. Our destiny.

Grams: What's the secret ingredient in my blueberry cobbler?

Piper: Honey and a splash of rum.

Grams: What's IBM selling at in your time?

Patty: Mum!

Grams: What?

Patty: It's not the time for personal gain.

Grams: If they could just nod their heads. Okay, forget it. Well, look at you. All three of you. Oh, Patty, I always knew you'd deliver the charmed ones. Once removed of course. Prue. (She nods.) Piper. (She waves.) And ...

Phoebe: Phoebe!

Grams: Oh, another 'P'. What a surprise.

Patty: About the pact?

Grams: We must keep the girls safe until we can reverse it. I'll have to bind their powers.

Piper: Uh, bind our powers?

Grams: Strip them from the young ones. So Nicholas can't get a hold of them. It doesn't have to be done straight away. As soon as Phoebe's born. I'll cast a spell and suspend, uh, your powers.

Prue: Um, but that's exactly what you did... or do... will do... you know what I mean.

Piper: Well, that explains why we don't remember having our powers when we were younger.

Grams: What do you mean? Well, how old were you when you got your powers back?

Piper: We just got them.

Grams: What? I unbound your powers without having unbroken the pact? Why would I do that? I mean unless I died which of course automatically ... unbind your powers. I guess I'm not going to make it to the next millennium, huh?

Phoebe: Uh, speaking of that, mum ...

Grams: No. We mustn't know anymore about the future. You came back for one reason, to break the pact. You mustn't tamper with anything else. It's much too risky. Heaven knows what damage you've already done by coming back here.

Prue: We haven't done anything, we missed our chance to stop the pact.

Grams: And there's a reason for that. Destiny always gets its own way. It's not as easy to change the past as you think. If you do it incorrectly, everything will change. The evil you vanquished, the good that you've done, none of it may've ever happened.

Piper: Well, we have to change this, we can't go back and let him kill us.

Patty: The only way to vanquish him in your time would be for me to unless the ring and take away its immunity. It's in a drawer in his hotel room.

(Piper pours powder from the pouch into the mortar. It goes up in a puff of smoke.)

Piper: Oh dear!

Phoebe: "Cleanse this evil from our midst, scatter its cells throughout time, let this Nick no more exist."

(Nick spins around very fast and turns into dust.)

Prue: Wow. I'm really glad I never got on Grams' bad side.

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[Scene: Prue and Phoebe are looking at photos. Piper brings in the vase of flowers.]

Phoebe: I can't stop thinking about mum. I lost her and then I found her again.

Prue: I'm just glad you finally have memories of her.

(Phoebe points to the flowers.)

Piper: What? I'm supposed to throw out perfectly good flowers 'cause they came from a creep? If that was the rule then we'd never have flowers in this house.

Prue: Well, they didn't just come from a creep, they came from a warlock who tried to kill us.

Phoebe: Still, if it weren't for him, I probably never would of gotten to know mum.

Piper: We all wanted to save mum, Pheebs, but both mum and Grams said we can't change destiny.

Phoebe: But, um, I still wrote her a note anyway.

Prue: You did?

Phoebe: Yes, I wrote her a note telling her to stay away from water on the day that she died. And then I put it in the Book of Shadows.

Piper: I can't believe you did that.

Phoebe: You don't understand. Every time I've made a wish, I wished for time with mum. And I believed in my heart that someday, somehow, that wish would come true and when it finally did, I didn't wanna let her go. You know, but then I realized that I had to let her go, so I took the not out and put it in my pocket.

Prue: Maturity sucks doesn't it.

Piper: So faith has its rewards. (She shows them the picture that Phoebe took in the attic.) It's a pretty good one of us, but once again, not a great one of you Pheebs.

Phoebe: Are you kidding? That is the best picture of me I've ever taken.